S1E3
Poison Ivy
Gossip Girl · 2007-10-03 · 40 min
FLICKFEEL
54
from 43 comments
COMMUNITY
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nobody yet
YOURS
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…
what happens
It's Ivy week for the Upper East Side teens of Constance Billiard and St. Jude's and the visiting representatives' arrival brings more than just college applications. Cut-throat rivalry is at its sharpest this week as the students compete for prestigious positions. Blair discovers a shocking but juicy secret about Serena and plots to drop the bomb at the best possible moment. Dan is sure that landing the coveted usher position with the Dartmouth rep will either make or break his future at the school. Unfortunately, it's Nate who nabs the position, despite total disinterest in the school. Meanwhile, Jenny gets closer to Serena's younger brother Eric and Rufus asks Lily for a favor.
how it went
Left to right is this episode — its opening to its closing minutes. This is the one span the comments were always describing.
FUN
53
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
21
how much it moved you
Two separate readings, not parts of the score — the score says how much of it held you, these say what kind of watch it was.
Read from 43 comments — 7 said when.
The number holds — it is read from every comment. The shape is not settled: only 7 said when something happened, and below 20 the same evidence split in half draws two different pictures. Drawn faint for that reason.
Not enough people said when to name this shape. The line is what the evidence draws, not a finding.
Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.
- height
- how intense it got, 0–100
- gold above
- how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
- grey haze
- how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it
what people actually wrote
Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.
“I love at the start how it went from Audrey x Julian talking to Obie x Aki.”
holdbackallmydark▲ 214about 0–15% inread it ↗
“This episode feels much better than the other two and that’s okay, I get that because a show has to have a chance to develop. But it feels right.”
khavefun101▲ 198about 66–100% inread it ↗
“Julien made me laugh so hard when she said "Why? Do you want to date her too?"”
TVDfan1▲ 143about 40–60% inread it ↗
“The beginning with Julien was so amazing”
IdolFlash98▲ 138about 0–15% inread it ↗
who made it
- directed
- J. Miller Tobin
- written
- Felicia D. Henderson
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
John-Paul Lavoisier as Field Hockey Coach
Jenna Stern as Headmistress
Darren Pettie as Jed Hall
Yetta Gottesman as Faculty Member
Cherise Boothe as Dr. Miller
Reed Birney as Mr. Prescott
Sam Robards as Howard Archibald
Nan Zhang as Kati Farkas